Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 1)

Will the cloud level the entrepreneur playing field and straighten out some of the ugly bumps during a typical startup journey, especially in Indian context, similar to how India leapfrogged years of telecommunication lag through its mass adoption of mobile technology? What are some of the barriers, challenges, and blue sky opportunities for new offerings, newer businesses based on cloud in India? In the following interview, Sramana and Sankarson Banerjee, CIO of India Infoline, dig into several aspects of cloud computing technology adoption and market needs in India.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s talk about moving to Google Apps or Google e-mail at some point. Right now you work on an Exchange platform. You have developed all your applications on top of the Microsoft environment. Now if you move to Google, all of that investment kind of becomes

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Based on my research, I see a distinct trend [toward] interesting private cloud deployment. LO: Very interesting! What would you say is the driver; I am curious to know. SM: I think it’s cost that is the driver, which is why I was probing that, to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO Of RightNow (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: How do you handle pricing for a situation such as the private cloud deployment for the Department of Defense (DoD)? Your primary product is on a per user per month subscription model, right?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is your take on security in the cloud? As part of delivering this enormous infrastructure to your clients, you obviously have to worry about data security. What is the data security strategy that you deploy for your cloud-based infrastructure?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What percentage of books today are being sold by Amazon and online retailers? PW: I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head, but I know that it more than tripled in a year in terms of our share. Well, we have a very small

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I see. So you use your own offering for CRM within RightNow? LO: Yes. We use our own system out of the cloud and have our own dedicated team that manages it separately from how we do that for our clients. For our expense management, we

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting! Assembling your own books – how are you doing that? What is the workflow for a teacher to assembling his or her own book? PW: This for us is very new. What we do is have a consultant come in and work with teachers to

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